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aggie08

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  1. Cool. I've never given anyone a neg rep to anyone in any iteration of the site. But you specifically called me out. Just curious what I did to personally aggrieve you.
  2. Do you think we'd still be saying this if people viewed the economy as good? I don't know, maybe.
  3. How and why?
  4. Okay, that's not bad.
  5. After yesterday? As much as he damn well pleases, whenever he damn well pleases. Ain't no one with the balls or political capital to stand up to him.
  6. Someone who talks like this reprimanding others for calling him a name. That is some peak-level grievance. If your 401k and investment accounts haven't made you a ton of money over the past 4 years, that's a you problem at this point.
  7. And what the fuck have you all been calling us, not just on a message board, but from the highest levels of government? The amount of hypocrisy that you guys are able to conveniently and completely dismiss is fucking staggering.
  8. 'A story about a pathetic man's resounding victory' just doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
  9. Sadly, this. Not even blaming Trump when China does. But he's about the last person I'd want to tackle it.
  10. It's already been happening, but the migration to more culturally aligned states is going to rapidly increase. It's not a question I want to think about right now, but I'm betting it fucks the Electoral College for Dems even harder, because of course it will.
  11. Not that I ever put much faith in this round of polls, but safe to say we should all be done with them now. What's the point if they completely miss a tonal shift like this? It's one thing to miss on Trump, but damn near everyone?
  12. Sweet. Glad to see that the stock market being up matters again. I don't imagine we'll have to wait long to see the GOP reminding us that our inflation is actually pretty low compared to the rest of the world.
  13. It was supposed to be celebratory Chili's. Don't subject yourself to sulking in a fucking Chili's. Go do something fun, focus on yourself family, and be temporarily thankful that you probably aren't in a demographic that this will affect the most.
  14. As others have said, this is pretty hypocritical, yes? I don't think you want to do a comparison between what Trump said about Kamala and her supporters and what she said about him and his during this campaign. Why is it that Republicans--especially since Trump--can essentially say the most heinous things imaginable with no repercussions, but one insult by a Democrat and it's "they need to tone down the rhetoric! Stop calling us names!" I honestly don't have a good answer for this. Maybe you do.
  15. Honest question: what do you think his cabinet and appointed positions will look?
  16. Meh. The people who follow and understand this kind of political grandstanding aren't the ones that the campaign needed to reach. Obviously Trump realized that and knew that sabotaging the bill was to his benefit. He bragged about it himself. It wasn't passed, Dems are in the White House, and the border is still bad. That's as far as the thought process goes.
  17. I agree with this to an extent. Once it became abundantly clear that nothing was going to be able to convince the majority of Americans that the economy was pretty good--or at least recovering decently--it was probably all over. People are going to vote for themselves and their own above all else--not that I blame them--and that makes it easier to ignore/rationalize the character of who you're voting for. And people have really short fucking memories. Those factors plus the built-in Trump base and, yeah, the VP pick probably don't make a shit.
  18. Just so we're all on the same page, to which wacko policies are you referring?
  19. Having difficulty deciding which is worse: This being the thing the Helobious is finally right about. Or four years of Brisket's doom and gloom somehow underselling the result.
  20. He is brilliant at self-promotion, realizing there's no such thing as bad press, and the benefits of flooding the zone. He's the perfect candidate for our current social media/podcast/pure propaganda media sphere. I will not deny him that. He's also one of the least intellectually curious human beings ever to hold high office. I was specifically referring to winning a majority vote and having Jan 6 and classified documents swept neatly under the rug. Not financial. Though, I think he's done just fine with his various and many grifts. His first Presidency had a handful of competent people in the room, and a cabinet that wanted to win re-election. It's going to be off the walls. The safeguards will hold, but they will be stretched.
  21. Trump isn't evil. He's just the biggest narcissist the world has ever encountered. He'll threaten prosecuting Jimmy Kimmel or some dumb shit, tweet out some insanity at 3am, then he'll get bored and go play golf. The concerns are who he appoints where and how much he lets them talk him into things when he knows he has absolutely nothing to lose.
  22. Again, you guys thinking that this won't be much different than the first go round are being purposely naive. He's a petty, vengeful, profoundly stupid man who just found out that, not only are there no consequences for his actions, he gets richly rewarded for them. He now (rightfully) thinks the the majority of America wants him to enact his wildest desires. Do you think his comments about finding generals who would just obey is just more Trump speak? What about RFKjr running the CDC, among many other institutions? Anyone who he can appoint will absolutely be a loyalist, qualifications be damned. Sure, our institutions will probably hold, and Trump co. is lazy, old, and incompetent. There will be a new President in 2028. But it's sure as shit not going to be business as usual.
  23. Definitely going to have to now. I think--even with how many of us actually ARE former reliable R voters--we all recognize that this is a bubble. And being educated and not having to live paycheck to paycheck is another bubble. The talks of a Kamala blowout were always hopium, but I felt the pollsters essentially predicting a coin flip were right on. I would have had to consume something to the right of Fox News to think that this reality was even a slight possibility. I'd wager that over 75% of my closest friends, family, and co-workers probably voted for Trump yesterday. Most educated and well-off themselves. So I'm not totally insular, and I obviously know Trump voters who aren't dumb, conspiracy-theorist nutjobs. While it would be easy to say, "Oh, it's just because, at the end of the day, people vote with their wallets no matter who that person is." But I feel like there's more to it than that to get this many non-traditional MAGA votes aligned on the side of someone who sounds absolutely batshit crazy every time he opens his mouth. So I am now out of touch with the majority of the electorate. Anecdotally, the transgender stuff probably made a bigger impact than expected. Yes, on the extremes, the GOP went to full-on transphobia and told hateful lies about surgeries in schools, litter boxes, and literally and girl who looked too masculine. But I know many parents with more reasonable concerns--unfounded or otherwise--and the Dems certainly didn't do much to reach out to quell those fears in a rapidly changing world.
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